Walk Through Your Jellyfin Library as a 1990s Video Rental Store

Halcyon Video – a 3D video store for your media server

Walk Through Your Jellyfin Library as a 1990s Video Rental Store

Halcyon Video transforms your Jellyfin library into a fully explorable, 3D video rental store built with three.js. Browse aisles lined with your actual movie cases, inspect back covers with real metadata, rent titles with a soft-body bag simulation, and even play games via RomM. The store runs on an HTPC, idles at near-zero resource usage, and supports optional features like rental rules, a clerk with genuine recommendations, and Jellyseerr integration for requesting missing titles.

This isn't a tech demo that gets old in five minutes; it's how our family has picked a movie every night for months.
  1. a_c

    I have a similar project, with goodreaads records

    https://github.com/kmcheung12/goodshelf

  2. myshapeprotocol

    A 3D video store architecture is a fascinating approach to spatial media management. Great to see more 3D-first tooling popping up.

  3. schlauerfox

    You need to hire someone to just record judgy videos of each of the famous titles, to get the full effect. Make it look like a 16bit era videocoded like nighttrap or myst.

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